Mahjong Guide

Your first American mahjong game will go fine until about ninety seconds in. The tiles get dealt, everyone stares at their rack for a moment, and then three people start sliding tiles sideways at each other without a word of explanation. Nobody tells you what is happening. You are supposed to already know. That is…

Pick up a tile from an American set and one from a Chinese set and they feel like the same family. Sit down at the two tables, though, and you will see two different games wearing similar clothes. If you have learned one and you are curious about the other, here is where they actually…